Crime and Punishment

Raskolnikov an impoverished exlaw student kills an old pawnbroker and her sister perhaps for money perhaps to prove a theory about being above the law He comes to police attention through normal procedures he was the victims client but his outbursts make him the prime suspect of the clever Porfiry Meanwhile life swirls around Raskolnikov his mother and sister come to the city followed by two older men seeking his sisters hand he meets a drunken clerk who is then killed in a traffic accident and he falls in love with the mans daughter Sonia a young prostitute She urges him to confess promising to follow him to Siberia Will he accept responsibility